Fall flowers are catching my eye, but I'm not the kind of girl that rips out every Summer flower and replaces them for Fall. I try to leave anything that is still alive and well and then add in some new things for Fall. It really depends year to year what makes it, but I love just adding in Fall flowers to my pretty pots. All the mums and Fall flowers will die off at the first frost so I really don't spend a ton of money on Fall flowers.
I'm hoping my sweet potato vines, asparagus ferns and some of the flowering plants will hang on through Fall. Watering every day really helps keep them going at this point in the Summer.
I bought 2 lavender plants from Meijer in July and both died in this middle pot. I'm not exactly sure what happened because everything else is doing great. I tried to return them and Meijer is not a gardener friendly garden center. Their return policy is only for shrubs and trees and you must have the receipt. I know I have returned flowers there before so something must have changed. I'm going to remember that for the future because I hate spending $20 on plants that didn't live. Especially because they were perennials that I was hoping to plant in the yard.
Insert: Gaura
I went to Lowes to find a flowering plant to put in this center pot.
They no longer had any lavender in stock so I was on the hunt for something similar. These two Gaura plants were hearty, flowering and they were big and whimsical like lavender. They seem really happy in the full sun. I'm hoping to transfer them from my pot to the ground eventually since they are a perennial plant. Wish me luck!
How do you transition your pots to Fall??
Love it! I need to work on my fall post!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this post! I watered my one summer flower pot this morning (I've kept it alive all summer, YAY) and was wondering what I could do with it once they start dying. Your flower pots look lovely!
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